That day, I was treated to potato porridge cooked with snakehead fish. The difference is that, the cook also “ballasted” (seasoned) to add one or two tablespoons of delicious fish sauce to the porridge pot to add flavor, before sprinkled with onions and pepper. At first, the pot of porridge gives off an attractive aroma quite similar to rice flour cake soup. But when you taste it, you can clearly feel the bold and light sweetness from cod fish fat and the characteristic sweet aroma of fresh cassava roots. And strangely! It seems that, when swallowing porridge, people immediately feel that the nutrients are “running” there. After drinking a bowl, the person was sweating profusely, so refreshing. Nutritious, easy to digest, hybrid porridge with tapioca soup. In particular, this porridge is not served with vegetables. In particular, this porridge does not need accompanying vegetables. If it feels bland (pale), add a little fish sauce with dangerous chili peppers, it will be very harmonious. When the weather is hot, people are sluggish, so they can easily lose their appetite. However, whenever someone invites me to drink cassava porridge, I am extremely interested. Because it is strange and easy to digest. This dish can be eaten as a filling or as a soup with cold rice in the main meal. More luxurious, add a pot of braised goby with pepper or braised fish sauce with lots of fat and dotted with small dried shrimp, half the size of a chopstick. How much rice! When you eat it, you will feel the sweet, dark and light taste from copper fish fat. The “hybrid” soup of the southwestern countryside, can be cooked with a few copper fish (small, perch, choke) or a bunch of shrimp and shrimp to add sweetness. There are places, even more “playful”, cooked with bamboo chicken or young chicken. So the more I think about it, the more I love the noodle kitchen! Because in order to have the above-mentioned quality soup, the most important requirement is that there must be fresh tapioca, the form that has just been spit up is the best. Old potatoes, will reduce the characteristic sweetness. In particular, the “young” cassava variety planted in 3 months for harvest is more useful than the “old” variety, it takes 6 months to grow the tubers to be large enough. Because the tubers of the 3-month-old potato are always sweet and fragrant. Of course, cassava can be processed into many other delicious dishes, such as: grinding it, rolling it into a curry ball or pouring it into a little sweetened condensed milk pressed into a mold like a printed cake to be grilled over charcoal fire or wrapped. little cakes, steamed silkworm cakes… Shredded cassava ingredients for curry. However, still not as deeply impressed as the “hybrid” soup just described. Because this dish, not only strange and nutritious, but also makes the writer nostalgic about the interesting porridge and soup dishes he has tasted. It’s like, a thin line between really good porridge and soup. And even happier with souls that are always full of a memory of the countryside with the kitchen, the noodles… the fluttering! How to cook “hybrid” tapioca porridge with snakehead fish or chicken is basically as follows: Peel and wash the raw cassava, divide it in half. Half sliced ​​thinly, minced. Cut the other half into large, medium-sized pieces. When the water is just warm, add the minced noodles first and let it simmer. Next, add the rest of the tapioca. Clean snakehead fish, cut into long slices, the size of three adult fingers, drain. Drop the fish into the pot at the same time as the large chunks of potatoes. Soup, cooked fish, then take out. Wait to cool. Drain the lean meat, remove all the bones. Next, put about 1/3 of the amount of fish that has been poached back into the porridge pot, to make the porridge more sweet. Or cook with chicken, cut raw chicken into bite-sized pieces, marinate: salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate about 15-20 minutes before. Fry until golden brown with a pinch of purple onion, lightly stir-fry the chicken and then put it in the pot of porridge/potato soup. Finally, season to taste with common spices: sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate. And most importantly, sprinkle a pinch of finely chopped fresh green onions with a few teaspoons of aromatic pepper powder. Articles, photos: Ta Tri

Vegetables – cotton and the best hot pot with fish sauce in the world – Photo: PROGRESSION Phan, a guy from the U Minh forest (Ca Mau) to Ho Chi Minh City to set up a business, sometimes offends friends from far away when he shows off his trips to his hometown. Nothing, his countryside is just a forest area with straight canals from one immense to another. Eat rice with mosquito net Under the grassy banks, it is possible that the snakehead fish is fishing, the perch is panting, or pulling from the pipe a wild eel is about to “turn into weasel”; interlaced are long strings of water spinach like a fairy; is a swarm of young sprouting from the fern; water lily, water hyacinth, chopsticks, tickle, bang, tub… While upstairs, the cow skin was unwrapped to rescue the choking butterflies that were pinched under several layers of mothballs splintered by the waves of coconut leaves. How much is enough for a pot of hot pot with U Minh fish sauce – one of 100 typical dishes of Vietnam. Talking about U Minh fish sauce hot pot, don’t let’s dive into the kitchen. And anyone who has ever eaten hot pot with fish sauce in the middle of the forest must know how to feel sorry for the scene of “eating rice with mosquito net”. Because U Minh also has an easy specialty, which is mosquitoes. And mosquitoes, it likes the smell of fish sauce. When sitting next to the hot pot of fish sauce in the forest, please do not misunderstand why the mosquitoes that gather to gather around. In their eyes, you are worth nothing compared to the smell of hot pot with fish sauce next door. Many people hear the mosquitos ringing deafeningly, the mosquitoes are like ants, they have to be caught in the net to eat the fish sauce hot pot in peace. Vegetables – cotton and the best hot pot with fish sauce in the world – Photo: PROGRESSION Where to eat there It sounds like a joke, but it’s true! U Minh fish sauce hot pot is fragrant, fragrant, addictive, fragrant. They live in the middle of the rich raw material area. If you are a “where to eat” people, there are always ready-to-eat dishes such as grilled, raw fish sauce, rare… And when they have worked on cooking hot pot, everyone wants to play the role of super chef. Well said, but ten people revealed the secret to cooking fish sauce hot pot, eleven people revealed: it’s the ingredients. Like U Minh fish sauce hot pot. See how they cook like this, how can’t it be delicious. First is the main ingredient: fish sauce. Ca Mau people are connoisseurs of fish sauce. They are connoisseurs to the extreme of fish sauce, arrogant about fish sauce. Let’s ask them how many people here compliment other countries’ fish sauce? Where they hate to make fish sauce but leave out the sweet sugar and want to die, as sweet as “chè mam”; where they criticize making fish sauce that is mixed and lacks sophistication; where they criticize making fish sauce lacking hearing, not fragrant… So, when people from other countries eat fish sauce, it’s delicious. As for some brothers and sisters from Ca Mau who eat fish sauce from other countries, there are probably not many people who praise it, even if it is for perfunctory praise. They can’t even eat local fish sauce. That’s what life is like! What about them? In order to have a delicious fish sauce hot pot, chefs from U Minh will immediately say they need butterfly sauce. There are hundreds of kinds of fish sauce here, but to make the hot pot ingredients, it must be the right butterfly fish. Bring the pot of water to a boil and then add the fish sauce, gently stir, each fiber of the fish dissolves quickly with the water. After being transformed in a pot of boiling water, the choking fish sauce will immediately smell, and then report the smell of a hot, hot smell. U Minh people often tell each other to go through any house to cook a hot pot of fish sauce but do not hear the smell coming out of the street, please stop by and advise the owner to throw away the hot pot. Fish fish sauce, after cooking the meat, remove the bones, then add spices, minced lemongrass… Depending on experience and skill, each chef has his own seasoning. Vegetables – cotton and the best hot pot with fish sauce in the world – Photo: PROGRESSION I can’t eat and then put my chopsticks away Finished the most important part is the hot pot. Go to the preparation of hot pot ingredients. U Minh people often dip hot pot with wild eel, wild snakehead fish, wild perch, snails…, products from wild fish are tough, sweet and fragrant. Everything just now will be less delicious, lacking in color if there is no plate (Ca Mau people call it a plate) of fresh cotton and vegetables that have just been picked up from the edge of the forest. To dip the hot pot, the U Minh people will break the buds, water lily, water spinach, bitter vegetables, pumpkin flowers, chopsticks, crab claws, longan buds, okra, eggplants, braised coriander … there are about a dozen types. cotton, vegetables or something on a plate. It has both sour, acrid, bitter, fleshy, aromatic, slippery or rough taste. A fragrant hot pot next to a plate of colorful vegetables. Some people will feel sorry because cotton and vegetables are so beautiful, they can’t eat. But once you’ve eaten, you can’t put your chopsticks away. If you eat hot pot with fish sauce with U Minh forest vegetables without branches, don’t say eat hot pot with fish sauce. Just understood, no matter how chaotic the work in the city is, Phan also has the motivation to cross hundreds of kilometers back to the forest. Surely his homeland is not only the vast economic forests. But that place also has snakehead fish catching fishing, panting perch, eel about to turn into a weasel, with a group of green trees on the edge of the forest, with freshly opened fish sauce… for hot pot with fish sauce and wild vegetables. Eaten with the subconscious, it is certainly the best hot pot in the world. Vegetables – cotton and the best hot pot with fish sauce in the world – Photo: PROGRESSION

The taste of noodle soup in Soc Trang is different from other places, because it is a harmonious combination of ingredients and the way of food preparation of local people. The essence of this dish is the broth – a soup made from a blend of fish sauce, lemongrass and wormwood noodles (a tuber similar to turmeric, but smaller and darker in color). The commonly used fish sauce are locally available ones such as: choke fish sauce, snakehead fish…; Particularly, Khmer people often cook with beef sauce… Also wormwood noodles, lemongrass are used to remove fishy smell and create a special fragrance for the broth. However, in order to be able to cook a pot of broth that is both delicious and fragrant, the kitchen often combines many types of fish sauce, including the Khmer’s specialty beef sauce and the local fish of the South in one cooking process. quite complicated. Fish sauce is processed separately, cooked and only filtered for clear water. Then, this broth is cooked with lemongrass and wormwood noodles for a period of time when the cook feels the flavor blend. Then, the cook adds coconut water to make the broth more sweet and clear. Using coconut water in soups is a familiar cooking method of the Kinh people in the Southwest region. As a result, the broth has its own flavor, aroma and clarity than vermicelli. The ingredients for the noodle soup are also processed quite elaborately, of which there are three main parts: boiled snakehead fish, meat removed, and bone removed; Boiled ground cloves with skin removed and roasted pork cut into pieces – a familiar dish of the Chinese. The crispy, greasy skin and the five flavors in the roast pork make the noodle soup more attractive. Besides, noodle soup is also served with a variety of vegetables such as bean sprouts, chives, grated morning glory, grated banana, herbs, laksa leaves to round out the flavor. When enjoying, diners can add a little lemon, chili, fish sauce for more flavor. It can be said that Soc Trang noodle soup is very easy to please gourmets. In Soc Trang, it is not difficult to find delicious noodle soup shops such as: Ca Dong, Cay Long, Thao – Phu Loi, Ms. Hanh, Mrs. Xim…

Like the hierarchy in a certain definition, fish sauce is a dish reserved for the class that still has many difficulties to survive. But I dimly realized that the fish house society still has its own rules and voices. The snakehead fish sauce is cooked with pork fat, sugar + monosodium glutamate + ground pepper, dipped with boiled okra or cucumber, or eaten with purple potato soup cooked with shrimp or minced meat only for the wealthy. The pot of braised fish sauce is even more remote because it is expensive when it comes to bacon, snakehead fish and silver shrimp, … I choose friends with a cup of fish sauce very early. My mother told me to buy a tamarind from her sister’s 5 Pieces, go back and eat with cold rice. Selling sour tamarind to Saigon with lots of zinc, needing to be tall, sister 5 is young but likes to eat betel nut. She’s so cute, she never takes money and keeps telling me to eat as much as I can. Mam ruoc is no longer lonely when choking fish comes to share joy and sorrow. My mother and I often sit and tear fish sauce and eat it raw with herbs, banana chips + star fruit and cold rice. Asking the elders in the West, I received the answer: the West knows how to make fish sauce from Indonesia and snakehead fish sauce is suggested by Khmer people. 2. Lost in the youth in Can Tho for 5 years and 11 months, I know Tay Do is very famous for hot pot with fish sauce, but I have never tried it, because the dish with a lot of money is only for receiving precious guests. Time has passed, it has also been windy and rainy and we know each other a lot, in my eyes, the South is the path of fish sauce and islet pot (hot pot), like a familiar saying from friends: If you don’t eat fish sauce, you are not a local West!. In my young years, I still don’t have a satisfactory answer when Chau Doc – An Giang and Ca Mau are always affectionately called “the kingdom or land of fish sauce”, but Can Tho is resounding with fish sauce hotpot. Asking the elders in the West, I received the answer: the West knows how to make fish sauce from Indonesia and snakehead fish sauce is suggested by Khmer people. Borrowing the method of making beef sauce from snakehead fish in the Ho Sea, Can Tho is the economic center of the Southern Continent, where “white rice with clear water” has created a method of fermenting fish with Vietnamese identity: using Listen to fermented roasted rice, instead of cold rice. The Khmer people are sincere and honest, but the cuisine is still entangled in the wild. Living in harmony between the two rainy and sunny seasons along the Mekong River, both the Khmer and the Southern people gradually perfect the rustic dishes from fish sauce. Khmer people in the West know how to apply more spices to make beef sauce wrapped in green banana leaves more fragrant. Snakehead fish in the pot of braised fish of the West is replaced with basa or howling fish for fatter. At that time, when I heard about the original way of fermenting beef sauce, I did not dare to eat it, not to mention the stories of weaving and adding charms from folk about the Khmer. Then I try to practice and feel very delicious! 3. The time I had a meal in Phnom Penh, it was so delicious with Prahok Kob. Mixed beef sauce with bacon + beef and dangerous chili, wrapped in green banana leaves and grilled on charcoal. Just raw cucumber, eggplant and vermicelli, mixed with fish sauce, I’m full, I don’t care about other dishes… That night, I also learned the national spirit of the Khmer people through the mouth-watering saying “No prahok, no salt”, deeply understood: without beef sauce, the meal cannot be delicious! Southeast Asian countries all have their own “country spirit”, which I have also tasted such as Ngapi – Burma, Kapi – Thailand, Trasi and Petis udang – Indonesia, Bagoong – Philippine, Belacan – Malaysia, Padaek – Laos, … In my eyes, Vietnam deserves to be the “Lord of fish”. The variety and abundance is so rich that I cannot count all the separate categories by region… 4. The rain is pouring heavily, eating fish sauce to realize the bold, honest, and innocent features of the old countryside. Processing is as easy as the identity and life of the fish, when the fish is choked with a little water, boil it to get the juice. If you want the fish sauce to be strong or light, depending on the amount of fresh coconut water you add to dilute the fish sauce. Bring to a boil again, I season to taste. Among the spices I’ve tried, for me, garlic and lemongrass are the best, so I minced them and put them in the hot pot to add extra fat. Looking at the plate of meat, everyone will be amazed, but those who like to eat fish have the same opinion: the best is to eat vegetables with fish sauce! When I cook hotpot, I think of my mother, because she foresaw my fortune: old age, no job to earn money, so I have to eat fish sauce to change day by day…

Where are the leaves and flowers – a wild plant that grows a lot in An Giang. Photo: Tourism Newspaper Prohoc sauce (prohok – boo hoc), according to my mother-in-law, the climate in the South has two seasons: rainy and sunny. In addition to the rice season, the fish season is also the main season of the Khmer farmers in the South. They catch fish in many forms such as slapping or fishing, spreading nets, fishing nets, etc. Where they can be caught, they can be dried there with large fish, while small fish are made into beef sauce. Every house makes two or three jars to eat all year round. Bo hoc sauce is almost considered as the main dish in the culinary life of the Khmer people as well as the Vietnamese people’s snakehead, choke, and roe sauces. Although their way of making prohoc fish sauce is similar to that in Cambodia, but through the stages to become bohoc sauce, it is necessary that there is no longer a musty smell, especially without maggots. Usually they use snakehead fish more than other types of fish, of course, snakehead fish to make fish sauce will be more delicious. Select suffocated snakehead fish, scrape the scales, scrape the blood on the spine, wash and soak in cold water for a day and a night (24g), then take it out and leave it in a basket to drain. Use a knife to gradually fish the fish, add a small pinch of salt and a little cold rice, mix well. Incubate in a sealed container, the next day take out the fish and place it in a thick basket, cover the basket with a piece of mocha, use a rock or heavy object to ballast the water with a fishy smell. Then, put the fish in a jar or glass glue, use your hands to receive the fish easily, cut the mo areca to fit the mouth of the jar or glue it on, use a bamboo brace to fasten it. Then proceed to cook salt water poured over the fish and then dried in the sun. About three months, the fish sauce can be eaten, but only used for making stewed, fried, seasoned soups, cooked vermicelli or cooked with potted rice noodles with shaved corn with straw mushrooms and snakehead fish or shrimp. If you want to eat it raw, you must leave it for a year or more, the longer you leave it, the more delicious it will be. Beef broth of Khmer people. Usually fish sauce is eaten raw with thinly sliced ​​​​fruit or paired with herbs of all kinds. In particular, when cooking vermicelli, fish meat is shredded, boned, put in a mortar with wormwood vermicelli, boiled, combed for water, then added fresh snakehead fish, pork, minced lemongrass into the pot of water. leo. Those who have never eaten prahoc sauce, when they heard the name mentioned, they were afraid. But if you happen to stand in the wind, someone is cooking fish sauce, the sense of smell can enjoy a faint aroma mixed between the pungent smell of brewed fish and the sweet aroma of fish sauce. That taste makes us drowsy, listening to the hungry stomach. Having a sip of spinach soup or a bowl of vermicelli, there was nothing happier than that. Happier if you can eat a piece of raw fish sauce sandwiched with the fruit, the sour and sour taste of the fish sauce mixed with the sweet and fragrant taste of the fish sauce, the warm and spicy taste of minced lemongrass, dissolved in a sip of wine cooked with rice, is nothing better. It’s like listening to the wine pushing the fish sauce and slowly drifting into the throat, slowly ripening… gradually…, falling into the stomach. Please bear with me, I don’t know what language to use to describe all that “delicious” pleasure! Where is the dried gourd salad with choke fish . Photo: Tourism Newspaper At home, my wife gently washes each bunch of young leaves, each tiny bunch of tiny aluminum flakes, drains before mixing the salad with cucumber, thinly sliced ​​tomatoes, and purple onions. Similar to the way to mix durian salad of the Vietnamese people in Sam mountain (Chau Doc, An Giang), it is mixed with dried snakehead fish, shredded grilled snakehead fish or with shrimp, tiger, boiled bacon cut into pieces and eaten together. coriander leaves. But, with the Khmer it is a little different. After washing vegetables, tomatoes are grated into thin circles; thinly sliced ​​purple onion; cilantro, chopped coriander only; chili, minced garlic. After that, my wife started to process the mixed water and put the cooked tamarind in a bowl to make boiling water, stirring to dissolve the tamarind rice. Then she began to process the mixed water, using cooked tamarind in a bowl or cup, boiling water in, stirring with chopsticks until the sour substance was diluted in the water. Prahoc sauce is also put in a bowl, add boiling water, and crumble until the meat is broken. Then, comb the water to decant the fish baits and bones. Crush garlic, chili, add a little granulated sugar and then add two kinds of tamarind juice, fish sauce, stir well, sweet and sour seasoning. When the shrimp or tiger is cooked, take it out, take out the cooked meat and cut it into thin pieces. Put both in a bowl of vegetables, add the mixed water, mix well with the leaves and flowers, then start enjoying. Unlike at home, where I sit to eat on a chair around the table, Khmer people eat on a plank, all the dishes are arranged in the heart of the board. Everyone in the family, along with my father’s two brothers and my (mother’s) brother, my wife sat cross-legged around the tray of rice. My father is the oldest person in the family, holding a cup and chopsticks to invite: “Each oot kho nia hop bai” (the whole family eats rice). I took each chopsticks of salad into my mouth, chewed slowly, the sweet and sour taste of cucumber, tomato, the spicy taste of garlic, chili, laksa leaves, coriander mixed with the sweetness of shrimp meat, the fat of pork belly. shine in the district with the sweet and bitter taste of sorrow. All of these are imbued with the sweet aroma of beef sauce, creating a delicious taste. Sorrow salad is no longer a favorite dish for men to sip with kh Kha wine, there is nothing better than telling stories in gatherings. My father-in-law holds a bottle of wine that is fermented with home-cooked glutinous rice that my uncle and I bring in according to the Khmer custom in the days of Sene Dolta (anniversary ceremony). He poured out a small glass, clear drops of wine slowly sparkling, showing a very high alcohol concentration. Picking up the glass, he said: “Onh Chon ate every ounce of happiness” (inviting everyone to drink wine). He brought a glass of wine to his lips, gulped it down, then wheezed, said: “Sê Chchanh” (good wine) and then poured a pass for each person. When I came to my circle, I refused because the wine was too strong, but my uncle said: “Num salinh top brother chon” (Ba Thuong Ba just invited). Hearing that, I couldn’t refuse and reached out to accept the wine glass. Before drinking, I picked up a chopsticks of salad, put it in my mouth, chewed it slowly, enjoying the sweet aroma, then swallowed, then gulped down the glass with my breath, the spicy alcohol on the surface of my tongue and then “swallowed” the salad pieces for them. drifting slowly, slowly, heating up as if they were ripening, softening and disintegrating. Enjoying this delicious dish, I realized that, no matter how sad, but when chewing a piece of melancholy salad, the sorrow is also broken and blended into the delicious taste that gradually drifts down to the stomach, leaving only a sweet, bitter aftertaste on the tip of the tongue that we always feel like eating more! Chau Doc (An Giang), where is known as the “kingdom” of fish sauce. Photo: Huynh LamTGTT On that day, when the cool winds swayed the surface of the Hau River, the first rain of the April season watered the fields and awakened the young shrimps that were still sleeping in spring in the shells clinging to the field or in frogs and crab burrows. , eels, snakes… At that time, the uncles started a self-reliant life. This is also the time when Khmer farmers are busy for the rice sowing season. The lush green carpets grow with the water. The shrimps are also growing up. By the middle of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the rice begins to ripen and the fields are golden, and people are anxious for the harvest. The fields are drained and the water flows down the canals and canals. This is the season of catching shrimp. Children, adults, women, young people, anyone can participate. People use bamboo slats, walk in the deep corners of the fields or use fine nets to drag along the canals. But the most common is to use scrubbing to place the free place to drain the water flowing down the canals to catch shrimp. Shrimp is an inexpensive source of wild food, but rich in protein, calcium, and easy to prepare. Can be boiled with rice paper, raw vegetables; fried dough; warehouse; roasted… but the best is to make fish sauce. The Khmer shrimp paste, called bo-ot, is different from the type of shrimp paste we usually use. The method is also simple, but must be carefully selected, remove moss, snail shells, dead leaves, grass, garbage, etc. Most importantly, remove the ones on the head with luminous substance by putting the shrimp in the ball. dark for easy viewing. If chosen incorrectly, when making fish sauce, it is easy to be poisoned. After choosing, wash, and use 1kg of shrimp with a high concentration of base wine, 50gr of granulated salt, marinate, cover for about 30 minutes, drain water, mix in a cup of cold rice, 100g of white granulated sugar, Get the cloves into the glue. About three days later, add chopped ginger, garlic, and crushed chili, mix well into the glue. Try eating a piece of ginger, if it tastes sour, the fish sauce has been eaten. Bo-ot fish sauce is very delicious, sour, sweet, aromatic, spicy… stimulating the digestive system, it is difficult for any kind of shrimp paste to be compared with its unique flavor. Shrimp sauce is served with raw vegetables of all kinds along with fresh vermicelli, rice paper and pineapple, acrid banana, sour fruit, thin slices when the family has an anniversary, party… But it is also used as food in daily meals. family day. When eating sandwich with grilled catfish, beef sauce gives me its wonderful taste, so I can’t help but “work hard” to bring my wife back to visit her family whenever I have the opportunity. And every time, besides visiting the health of my wife’s parents, and then gathering around the family tray of rice, I often enjoy the unique taste of beef sauce and beef sauce in a meal full of love. feel dear!

Crocodile soup cooked delicious snakehead fish. My house is in the suburbs of Da Nang, in recent years, the rows of crocodiles planted on the streets of Le Dai Hanh, Nguyen Phuoc Tan… have been almost “old” by the workers of the Urban Environment Company. Da Nang city planted a few decades ago has flowered and produced results. Crocodile does not give as many fruits as the northern localities, but the taste of “heritage” crocodile in Da Nang is not inferior to other localities. Crocodile fruit when still green is used to cook sour soup, soaked in drinking water… Ripe fruit is used to make crocodile apricot umbrella, pickled crocodile, vinegar sauce… The most impressive thing is the crocodile soup cooked with fish and fruit. (Tel fish, snakehead fish…). Cooking method is as follows: Fish and fruits are made and washed, drained, then marinated with seasoning powder, pepper powder, chopped red onion, paprika for aroma. After 10 minutes for the spices to infuse into the fish meat, then put the casserole on the stove, fry the cooking oil with garlic until fragrant, put the marinated fish in it for aroma. When the fish is almost cooked, add boiling water to continue cooking. When the fish is cooked, add the crocodile (cleaned and smashed) and pineapple (pineapple, pineapple), tomatoes, sour bamboo shoots… in. After the soup boils again for a few minutes, then remind and re-season to taste. Ladle the soup into a bowl and sprinkle more scallions, chopped cilantro into the bowl of soup to make it fragrant. Looking at the bowl of crocodile soup cooked with fish and fruit with the ivory white color of fish meat, the green color of the crocodile, the yellow color of the pineapple, the red color of the tomato and the moss green color of the spices, it looks very eye-catching. This bowl of crocodile soup is extremely fragrant, delicious and nutritious with the sweetness of fish mixed with the sour and sour taste, the bar, the aroma is very attractive for a meal on hot summer days. When enjoying this soup, we “have to drink it at the same time” and often jokingly say that it is a “inter-regional” sour soup. It’s really: “Crocodile sour soup, cooked calamari/He ate a bowl of all his sorrows and sorrows immediately” or “Spring with crocodiles to call summer / Cooking snakehead fish soup to eat immediately”… Crocodile sour soup cooked with fish fruit is a special “chorus” because crocodile fruit originates in the North (Hanoi), fish is most abundant in the South (Central, Southern). In the middle of summer, enjoying this soup with this “interference” flavor, we remember the “Southern onion” ancestor of a time.

Illustration. Photo source: Internet Resources: Tomatoes: 3 fruits Pork tenderloin: 200gr Scallion, onion, seasoning powder, fish sauce, cooking oil. The pork tenderloin washed, minced, washed tomatoes, cut into areca segments, washed green onions, sliced. Non-fragrant onions for meat and a little fish sauce to stir-fry. Add tomatoes to medium fry, pour boiled water. After boiling water seasoning seasoning seasoning, fish sauce has just eaten, then drop onions and turn off the heat. Minced pork tomato soup is one of the most popular and easiest dishes in everyday meals. This dish will bring delicious taste, eat forever regardless of hot or cold weather for your loved one. You can serve this soup with crispy shrimp for a more rounded meal. Clam sour soup with pineapple Illustration. Photo source: Internet Resources: 1kg of fresh clams; half a pineapple, 2 tomatoes Lettuce, onions, dill, 2 crocodiles (or 1 tamarind), 1 dried onion Fish sauce, soup powder, seasoning seeds. Making: Washed tomatoes, 1 citrus fruit, 1 diced fruit. Shredded onions, crushed ginger. Ham, onions, dill washed, chopped. Clam washed, put in a pot, filled with water and then boiled a few grains of salt. When the clam opens your mouth, turn off the stove, take out the meat, marinate it with fish sauce, main noodles, soup, 1/3 of the dry onion to infuse the spices. Clam boiled water is poured into a bowl to settle the sediment. Heat a little cooking oil in a saucepan, add the rest of the dried onion to non-aromatic. Stir in tomatoes. When the tomatoes are ripe, add the clams. Stir well for 2-3 minutes, then scoop out all clams and tomatoes. Pour the bowl of water to boil clams into the pot, paying attention to remove the sediment below. Drop 2 crocodile fruits, pineapple slices into small pieces and boil for about 10 minutes. Then add clams and tomatoes to add areca segment and cook for another 5 minutes, seasoning to taste the spices you eat. Add onions, ham, fennel and then turn off the heat. Ladle soup into a bowl, eat hot. Sour soup with snakehead fish Illustration. Photo source: Internet Resources: Snakehead fish: 1 fish, about 700 – 800g (choose fresh, firm fish to cook the best soup) Pineapple: ¼ fruit Tomatoes: 2 fruits Okra: 5 fruits Along the net: 2 branches Bean price: 100g Sour tamarind: 50g Scallions, cilantro Spices: fish sauce, salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate, seasoning seeds, pepper powder, chili powder, chili powder, cooking oil, onion, garlic Making: Dried onion, garlic: cleaned, minced Snakehead fish: cleaned through salt, washed with water, sliced ​​to taste, cut lightly on each slice to allow the fish to spice up. Season the fish with ½ teaspoon of chopped garlic onion, 1 teaspoon of seasoning seeds, ½ teaspoon of fish sauce, ½ teaspoon of MSG, ½ teaspoon of cooking oil, ½ teaspoon of pepper for about 15-20 minutes. Pineapple, okra: cleaned, sliced ​​diagonally. Tomatoes washed, add areca zone. Along the mosquito net: strip off, cut thin, squeeze through with a little salt, rinse, blanch with boiling water, drain. Bean sprouts: washed, separate. Aromatic herbs: Clean, finely sliced. Sour tamarind: Soak with warm water, pickle to melt tamarind meat, remove seeds, extract water. Non-aromatic 1 teaspoon garlic minced onion with cooking oil, add ½ teaspoon of paprika to create color. Add the fish to the island lightly, then add the water to cook the soup, add the sour and fragrant tamarind juice, you can add your own bone broth to add sweet soup. Until the water is boiling, use the racket to remove all the bubbles from the top to make the broth clear. Water boils for about 3 minutes, fish is about to ripen, add tomatoes, okra, along the mosquito net, bean sprouts. Season with ¼ teaspoon of salt, ½ teaspoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of seasoning seeds, and teaspoon of MSG to taste. When the soup is done, turn off the heat, add the scallions, cilantro and pepper to stir and scoop it into a bowl to enjoy. Snakehead fish sour soup is a very suitable and nutritious dish for the family’s daily meals, especially those in hot weather.

Ho Chi Minh City greeted me with sudden showers at sunset, rain came quickly and ended quickly, not as rains in the North. I miss Dam Sen and Suoi Tien with many beautiful scenes; Remember that Water Park brings a feeling of strong, scared, but assured right away because of the cute rescuers. Remember at 2 o’clock in the morning going to eat late, still the shop is open, remember to knock at the alley near the hotel, forget the way to go home deliciously. I thought to myself, I will definitely come back and stay longer to experience, but life is not what I wanted … The second time back to Ho Chi Minh City after more than 20 years of separation, now I am a quite special passenger on the flight. The plane landed, I was picked up by an elevator for the disabled. The ground attendant at Tan Son Nhat attentively served me even though I had a companion. When I left the airport, I received a lovely greeting “Have a nice visit to Ho Chi Minh City” with a smile that made me forget the fatigue during the long, warm flight with sincerity. “A good start to the” strange land “days – I thought to myself. This time, Ho Chi Minh City greeted me with the bright sunlight and met the smiling eyes of the students who came out to welcome me, although we have only met more than 20 years. Many stories, many student memories flooded back. You blame me for having an accident without reporting, blaming me all the time and closing a sentence that makes me cry: “You are as stubborn as before, I love you so much, really …”. You are still the same, frankly but honest. I laughed all the time, watching the streets, 20 years, so many changes. Coming to Ho Chi Minh City, I miss the old noodle bowl, the car that sells the noodles knocked in the alley. I visit a street noodle shop, the owner is a man in his 50s. Like many other guests, I ordered my own bowl of noodles. Maybe it was because I was in a wheelchair when I entered the restaurant, but he kindly came over to ask “Can you eat spicy kisses?” Then he waved to the child: “Oh, bring me a small tray to put the bowl on.” It’s just such a small concern that I’m so warm. His gentle smile made me no longer have distance, I am happy because of his sincerity and sophistication. I thanked him, he waved his hand: “It’s okay, you live with people together.” This country is so cute. Our group of friends made an appointment at Con Rua Lake to review old memories. Everyone with two hairstyles and laughs like when they were in college. My friend – a director of a company but no pants is a turn, he shorts T-shirt to drive a motorbike. Ordering rice paper and sipping with old friends, I poked it: “The owner is still like when he was short of food, lack of money for rent.” Laughing loudly, it said: “Ui now, I’m still the same as before, still the guy who likes to shop on the sidewalk, likes to eat steamed rice filled with the gravy of Mrs. Lan, the shop next to the school.” It’s a lavish city, but I still feel the rustic, sincere features through my friends. What reminds me of HCMC on this trip was a “fragrant” way back to the hotel. Having been warned “be careful not to be slashed by a taxi” so I keep an eye on the clock when getting on the bus. He got out of the car with a sunburnt-colored taxi driver, and with a bright smile he got off the bus when he saw that the “special” passenger was me. Ho Con Rua, where the young people of Ho Chi Minh City often come to play and chat. Photo: HOANG Trieu – Can you get in the car by yourself or do you need my help? A friendly gesture, a gentle but caring question that made me happy and did not feel different, I once again thought to myself how cute HCMC people are. – How far is it from here to the hotel? – Just going a little, now going to be stuck in traffic, but I’m assured, Tan Ky Tan Quy street is not as jam-packed as in Truong Chinh. A moment past some snakehead fish grilled, he opened the door for you to “enjoy”. He said and smiled. It is exactly as he said, the smell of snakehead fish fragrant the whole neighborhood, just listening to the scent is already attractive. He continued: – In the traffic jam, I have to sit for a long time and hear the smell of grilled fish, are you hungry? If you are hungry, take a bag of cakes that you leave behind to eat, there is a bottle of mineral water too, feel free to relax. All the way, he chatted happily, as if I forgot the crowded traffic jam outside. Arriving at the hotel, the taxi fare was more than a hundred thousand, surprising me. Who says the HCMC taxi “slashes”, who says to “be careful” with the city taxi. Enthusiastic, friendly, I secretly thank you. Ho Chi Minh City people also touched me when I went to dinner, struggling with high sidewalk steps but could not roll the car, 4 people sitting and drinking coffee along the road rushed to help. How so loving and touching. I thought of the old-noodle uncle’s saying: “It’s okay, let’s live with everyone else”, not only looks at each other, but also loves each other a lot. Ho Chi Minh City changed a lot, I was overwhelmed by the Landmark 81 building, Bitexco tower; I admire the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Post Office, enjoy when passing Thu Thiem tunnel, taking the train on the Saigon River. But even though Ho Chi Minh City has changed, the love of people is still the same. In Ho Chi Minh City not many days, but I received so many love, just that only makes me love this city and want to come back many more times. These unforgettable feelings make me far away from Ho Chi Minh City and I feel nostalgic and miss me.

Take a picture (see also called a pond, with a depth of about 2.5m, width about 7-10m). This is one of the traditional, very popular and unique harvesting methods of copper fish by Ca Mau farmers that not everywhere. According to local people, the shooting is usually around December of the lunar calendar every year. One day before taking pictures, people will carefully check the surroundings so that when they are disturbed, the fish cannot escape. Next, clear the grass, pull out the brush in it to prepare it on the net (made of nylon thread). Then use a net wider than the mouth to cover the entire water surface. On the day of catching fish, people will lower the net about 0.5m from the pond bottom, then use the branches of the tree in distress to pin the net border to the wall. After that, waiting for about 3 hours, when the fish come up and lie neatly on the net, people start to pin the second time thicker and deeper to prevent the fish from coming back to the bottom, then pin in here. Finally, only a few workers are healthy young men pull the two nets at one end out of the side and the staples are fixed firmly on the shore. The other end pulls the net to collect the fish to the fixed end, and then sort the big and small fish to use the net to scoop up the fish.

Every time before and after Tet, people in the West are bustling in the slapping season to catch fish. When the field legs began to run out, the fish retreated to the shelter, people began to slap again to harvest the field fish. Fishing is a long-standing activity in the West and has become a cultural feature of the people here. Every time we slap, everyone in the neighborhood helps, called “catching the pangasius”. At dawn, everyone took advantage of the slap. Copper fish often go very deep in the mud, hiding in caves. People are happy with their achievements. In the past, people used dandruff and barrels to slap, so it took a lot of effort and time. Currently, every slap, people use the pump to pump water, so it is less strenuous and shortens the time. While waiting for the water to run out, healthy young men and men take advantage of clearing grass, water spinach, scrub (a dry tree for fish shelter) to easily catch fish. The fish in the mud are very diverse, most of them are tilapia, perch, octopus, snakehead fish, and catfish … When the water is almost dry, people gather to catch fish. Copper fish often go deep in the mud, so people have to soak in mud, crawl in grass, in caves to catch big fish. Copper fish in the West is very plentiful, most snakehead fish, perch, waterfalls and chach. Finished slapping, the owner took the delicious fish to make many dishes, treat neighbors to thank everyone to help him. Western people think that “the fish you sell for money will use up, but if you have the heart to choose delicious fish for customers, your long-term love is hard to fade”. Among the delicious dishes from copper fish, there must be grilled snakehead fish. Snakehead fish grilled with sweet, fragrant aroma with the smell of coal fire, eaten with a bunch of copper vegetables, though simple but passionate about the taste of the countryside. Slapping a lot of fish, they also dried, made fish sauce to eat gradually. After the slapping, the owners often catch the best snakehead fish and bring them to grill, treat them to slap. Grilled snakehead fish, a specialty of the West. Pham Thi Hon (living in Khanh Binh Dong commune, Tran Van Thoi district, Ca Mau) said that in recent years, the amount of copper fish has decreased sharply, but people still keep the habit of slapping. “Because copper fish is increasingly rare, very few families sell fish. If they have a lot of fish, they will sell some to familiar traders. Most of the fish are divided among brothers and friends. The most fun is the scene where the brothers catch copper fish together, then grill or charcoal in the middle of the field, “said Hon.

For the melon to have a rich, beautiful look, the cheeks cut ginger, galangal roots and chili to ripen into thin slices, then mix into the subjects, add a little salt and sugar to taste, empty the rice, then pour water to wash the rice. slang to flood, then cover tightly. 3 – 4 days later, when the cantaloupe turns yellow, it is edible … Saying that, but to make a cup of melon is not easy, must be meticulous and have a secret, not playing around. Melon can be eaten with fish stock, or cooked in sour soup with perch, snakehead fish is all delicious. The ringing, earthy taste, the pungent, strong, sour smell of cantaloupe has seeped into my flesh and blood until now and has become nostalgia. My father cooks quite well, but every time he cooks porridge, he nods, and he just can’t wait to eat. To have a pot of delicious porridge for the whole family, the mother must choose large, bright yellow eels and young mussels to cook well enough. When the pot of porridge boils, the rice has just hatched, the cheeks let all of the mussels thinly into and cook together, while the eel is quickly cooked, then put in the last. Until all cooked, she put braised cilantro, minced chili lemongrass and coconut milk, then mentioned it down, served the tray … I don’t know, is it because of the porridge pot made with water. Did I give up on my cheeks blush, to go back to live with my baby’s cheeks, or because of their forgiveness? As for me, the smell of porridge water kept strong until now. On the phone, my mother said to my husband and I: “My father is now in the field because it rains, so I have a cold, I have to cook water for him to drink.” Listening to my mother, I felt so impatient, I loved my father more, but I loved her more. The cup of moth sweet is sweet, the fragrance is soothing to relieve poison, but the love of cheeks for her father is sweeter and more fragrant than the cup of cheeks cooked. I love my cheeks so much, I love all my youth because of my children and the gentle streak of Western women, the square of the family home. Knowing that I like the watermelon dish cooked in sour snakehead snakehead fish soup, my wife went to the market early on the weekend. My wife said there was no good snakehead fish today, so the whole family ate a pickle and pickled soup cooked with anabas. Put a little broth into the rice bowl, I hear the smell of melon, pungent, not strong, sour, fragrant like melon in the old days. However, living in urban areas, a little love from the countryside, even if not tasting, warms the hearts of those who are far away from home. This afternoon, the city suddenly poured rain. I watched the rain fall, suddenly heard my heart flutter, remembering my mother’s saying: “Love is a long life, not just a season for her to make medicine.” Injury!

The family meals are simple but rich in flavors such as goby fish with fragrant pepper, fried bacon with salt and crispy onions, deep fried snakehead fish with tomato sauce and irresistible mango, braised beef with lemongrass and chili, and thighs. The roasted chicken is rich but the meat is still soft, the scallop has a bit of fat and the delicious and eye-catching Ba ò bamboo shoots always make each of us flutter every time we remember. Each lunch meal is only VND 189,000 / person (price included tax) with the menu of 02 items changed every day, to meet the needs of enjoying and diverse choices of diners. Understanding this need, the chefs at Rex Hotel Saigon have perfectly, gently, balance ingredients and spices into each dish including a main dish, stir-fried dish, rice and soup to create a nutritious lunch. “Saigon Lunch” are simple dishes, but very sophisticated in processing, in order to bring the best taste to diners. Also, do not miss the Happy Hour program at the Rooftop Garden Bar on the 5th floor of Rex Saigon Hotel. From 16-21 hours daily, with only any 2 cocktails, you will get 2 additional glasses of the same price cocktail. Rooftop Garden Bar of Rex Saigon Hotel is one of the famous bright spots at night in Southeast Asia, with many special images that preserve old Saigon memories, in addition to the freshness of cuisine. and diverse drinks, is the ideal meeting place for you, family and friends. Posts: Nice News

Hamster fried with lemongrass and chili. https://dulich.petrotimes.vn/ Snakehead fish steamed in tank To prepare this dish, the processor will clean the snakehead fish and then cut it into pieces, season with enough seasoning and fish sauce and place it on the steam bath. The sweetness of the fish is fragrant, mixed with the characteristic scent of a crunchy and exotic tub, and it’s delicious just by smell. This dish must be eaten while still hot, served with snakehead fish roll rice paper, adding a little vermicelli and wild vegetables, and dipping with spicy and sour fish sauce will create a rich flavor. Classic flexible fish hotpot What makes this dish unique is the characteristic taste of Ganoderma lucidum fish, sweet crispy crazy cotton, pickled and sour tamarind, fatty greasy taste, mixed together with spices to make the dish wake up. The fragrant aroma makes everyone a delicious compliment. Can be eaten with fresh noodles or hot rice and indispensable a little chili fish sauce to dot the fish, making the dish more rich. Sour soup with fish Referring to Western delicacies, it will be a major omission if not mentioning the delicious fish and sour soup, not boring. The taste of crispy sweet and lumpy fish is seasoned with a little sour tamarind, a little delicious fish sauce combined with a few dangerous chili, a little coriander, eaten while still hot, will surely captivate any fastidious diners. Lemongrass warehouse imitation of coconut milk The quintessential soul of this western dish lies in its rustic ingredients and simple preparation. Westerners make imitation in a clay-fired pot on a coal fire. In particular, the delicious lemongrass flavor mixed with fatty coconut milk, a little chili, served with vegetables, banana corn to create a special dish, full of Western flavors. Steamed inside onion fat Heart tong is a popular fish, often used to store pepper or deep-fry. But few people know, the heart is also steamed with onion fat. Just fry the onion fat and season with enough seasoning. Then, sprinkle the scallion fat over the fish and put it in a steamer. After 15 minutes, you will have delicious Western dishes that are hard to resist. Hamster fried chili lemongrass This is one of the western delicacies with its own taste. The delicious hamster meat is comparable to goat meat and chicken meat. Just clean and then let the fresh lemongrass minced, remove the dangerous chili, add spices and a little delicious fish sauce and mix well. Then, in a frying pan, there is a golden rat meat dish with attractive aroma. https://dulich.petrotimes.vn/

Spice Bistro This place attracts diners with pure Vietnamese dishes. The shop is decorated with familiar objects from the Southern countryside. Here, you can enjoy delicious dishes in 3 regions placed in pots, ceramic cups, clay pots … reminiscent of family meals. The specialty of the restaurant’s dish is rich in spices, a bit pungent, stimulating the taste buds of people. Address : Thi Sach, Ben Nghe ward, district 1; Street 11, Thao Dien ward, district 2 Business hours : 7-22h Photo: Spice_bistro. Reviews of customers : Giang Vu: “The restaurant is suitable for eating with family with a comfortable and warm space”. Le Khanh Nguyen: “The food and drink have its own characteristics. The dishes we eat are pho mixed with beef, toad salad, anchovies, and sticky rice to eat together. The dishes here are quite spicy, you should ask the staff first” . Useful: “The space is rustic decor. The price is quite high, but the food is delicious and quality”. Flyfood Flyfood specializes in serving dishes with home flavor and home delivery to help customers save time. Roasted chicken with green beans, coconut shell, shrimp, meat, snakehead fish with tamarind, tamarind rice … are some of the outstanding dishes of the restaurant. If you choose to ship at home, you should order early, the food is always kept hot when it arrives at your customers. Address : Ho Bieu Chanh, ward 12, district Phu Nhuan Business hours : 8-22h Photo: Llickthespoon. Reviews of customers : Avi Ho: “The first time I went to the restaurant, I went with my family. The menu was varied, the price was not too high. Chicken was the best seller of the restaurant, but I found the marinade is not good, good.” Mushroom Ashi: “I ordered the company to ship crispy salted pork to the company. The dish is still warm when delivered. The fried spring rolls are a bit too much, so the skin is cut and a bit hard, not crunchy.” Huong Tran: “Fried snakehead fish with tamarind fish sauce is a bit soft. Pork-ear coconut-ear salad is delicious and easy to eat”. An Nam Quan As one of the famous places for chicken dishes on a tray, diners appreciate that the restaurant is bold in Central cuisine through processing as well as seasoning. The menu here has more than 80 Central dishes for you to choose from. Casual, comfortable space. Address : Nguyen Binh Khiem, Da Kao Ward, District 1; Tu Xuong, Ward 7, District 3 Business hours : 11-22h Photo: Hausofcolor, tran139. Reviews of customers : Nhat Linh Tran Hoang: “The restaurant is decorated beautifully, airy and spacious. I order a chicken on a tray. Chicken is processed in many ways so it is not bored to eat. Price is affordable compared to quality”. Thao Doan: “Parking fee is 5,000 VND / unit. The restaurant is suitable for family meals. Long service staff. I like the best beef guise leaves, grilled snakehead fish with banana”. Minh Pham: “The space in District 3 is smaller. The service staff is slow, maybe due to the crowded evening of the restaurant”. Luc Tinh Kitchen If you love Western dishes, this restaurant is the address you can choose. The space of the restaurant is decorated in the style of the Southern River region combining rustic and luxurious features. The menu is mainly typical Western dishes such as braised broth, bronze shrimp soup cooked with young tamarind leaves, or banh xeo, khot cake … Address : Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, Nguyen Thai Binh Ward, District 1 Business hours : 10-22h Photo: Itsyumitran, ntnamhair. Reviews of customers : Itsyumitran: “The space is spacious and airy. The food quality is relatively stable. I like the braised sea bass fish, sour soup well cooked”. Bi Ln: “The price of the food is relatively high. The cakes are a bit fat and greasy for me. The staff is enthusiastic and cute”. Free Bee: “The restaurant has areas suitable for many groups such as retail customers, group guests … This is the right place to meet friends and partners”.